In today’s Orange County Register online, I review last night’s performance of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony by the Pacific Symphony and conductor Carl St.Clair, part of the orchestra’s “Music Unwound” series.
Click here to read my review, or pick up a copy of tomorrow’s newspaper.
New and noteworthy recordings, released on November 15, 2011.
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The Sunday Live series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, now in its 7th decade, is now available to download as a free podcast.
Each concert is available on the KUSC website for a week following the Sunday performance. Right now you can download a spiffy program of John Adams’ Shaker Loops and Bizet’s Symphony in C performed by Jorge Mester and the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra. Download podcast here.
Tomorrow’s concert (6 p.m. Nov. 13), featuring violinist Movses Pogossian, clarinetist Michele Zukovsky and pianist Antoinette Perry performing Beethoven and Messiaen, can be streamed live here, and will then be available on podcast (at the previous link).
Of course you can also go down to the museum on Sunday and hear the concerts for free, no reservations necessary.
Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), Belgian violinist and composer.
Below he plays the Scherzo-valse by Chabrier in 1910.
The music in this video has his fingerprints all over it. And if Glass didn’t write it, is it plagiarism?
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I’ve put together a selected list of some of the more noteworthy recordings released today.
Click here to view the list. (It’s a slide show; my captions to the photos provide a short description of each release.)
In today’s Orange County Register online, I review a gala concert performed by the Pacific Chorale in honor of its longtime director, John Alexander.
Click here to read my review. There’s a slide show too.
Born on this date from left to right, instrument maker Adolphe Sax, pianist and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and the king of the march, John Philip Sousa.
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New Zealand String Quartet
The much traveled New Zealand String Quartet will give the acoustics of the brand new Soka Performing Arts Center a test with a varied program spanning centuries. Haydn’s “Lark” Quartet opens the agenda, which also includes “Exitus,” written in 2009 for this group by the Wellington-based composer Michael Norris, Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 7 and Beethoven’s late masterpiece, the String Quartet, Op. 131. 8 p.m. Nov. 5. Tickets are $23-$33. Soka Performing Arts Center, Soka University, Aliso Viejo. 949-480-4000. soka.edu
Pacifica Quartet
The Grammy-winning Pacific Quartet, recently named quartet in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, arrives at the Segerstrom Center for a make up appearance after a cancellation last season. The ensemble will perform Beethoven’s early String Quartet, Op. 18, No. 3, Shostakovich’s rarely heard String Quartet No. 2 and Beethoven’s great middle period String Quartet, Op. 59, No. 3, “Razumovsky.” 8 p.m. Nov. 8. Tickets are $60. Samueli Theater, Segerstrom Center for the Arts. 714-556-2787. scfta.org
Talich Quartet
The venerable Talich Quartet, established in 1964 and now headed by the founder’s son, has long been considered one of the great exponents of Czech music. The group arrives in Fullerton to perform Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80, Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 and that classic of the Czech repertoire, Smetana’s String Quartet No. 1, “From My Life.” 8 p.m. Nov. 4. Tickets are $20-$25. Meng Concert Hall, Cal State Fullerton. 657-278-3371. fullerton.edu
